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252 APPLYING EPPICIENCY PBINCIPLES
sonally to do tbe work in the time lie sets. The read­ing
of these chapters ought to convince any one that
time study itself is a highly skilled specialty. If be­side
requiring this skill, we insist upon the manual
skill of a 100 per cent efficient workman, we either re­strict
the activities of every time-study man to a very
few operations, or we call for a superlatively gifted
creature who is rare indeed. In either case we greatly
increase the cost of time studies; in the first, by multi­plying
the number of men; in the second, by using very
bigh priced men.
Instead, this is a case for division of labor, as shown
by Figure 1, Article 66, the Diagram of Organization,
in which separate corps of time-study men and of in­structors
are provided.
230. The experience of efficiency engineers and of
educators in trade schools and in Y. M. C. A. voca­tional
classes, is that the best teachers of industrial
processes are skilled workers who also possess some
natural gift for teaching.
231. Such an instructor and a time-study man can
very well co-operate. Gantt, in "Work, Wages and
Profits,'' Chapter VIII, gives in detail the history of a
case of such co-operation. Any one interested in the
matter will do well to read it carefully. After doing
so, he will understand better than is otherwise likely,
what difficulties are encountered, how the time-study
man and the instructor help each other and both help
the direct worker, and why the first two can accom­plish
more together than either can separately. In
Table 12, Article 202, an actual time study shows the
possibility of saving 34.5 per cent of the time of two
workers by the joint labors of a time-study man and
an instructor.

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252 APPLYING EPPICIENCY PBINCIPLES
sonally to do tbe work in the time lie sets. The read­ing
of these chapters ought to convince any one that
time study itself is a highly skilled specialty. If be­side
requiring this skill, we insist upon the manual
skill of a 100 per cent efficient workman, we either re­strict
the activities of every time-study man to a very
few operations, or we call for a superlatively gifted
creature who is rare indeed. In either case we greatly
increase the cost of time studies; in the first, by multi­plying
the number of men; in the second, by using very
bigh priced men.
Instead, this is a case for division of labor, as shown
by Figure 1, Article 66, the Diagram of Organization,
in which separate corps of time-study men and of in­structors
are provided.
230. The experience of efficiency engineers and of
educators in trade schools and in Y. M. C. A. voca­tional
classes, is that the best teachers of industrial
processes are skilled workers who also possess some
natural gift for teaching.
231. Such an instructor and a time-study man can
very well co-operate. Gantt, in "Work, Wages and
Profits,'' Chapter VIII, gives in detail the history of a
case of such co-operation. Any one interested in the
matter will do well to read it carefully. After doing
so, he will understand better than is otherwise likely,
what difficulties are encountered, how the time-study
man and the instructor help each other and both help
the direct worker, and why the first two can accom­plish
more together than either can separately. In
Table 12, Article 202, an actual time study shows the
possibility of saving 34.5 per cent of the time of two
workers by the joint labors of a time-study man and
an instructor.